SEWARD, Neb. (KOLN) - The Nebraska National Guard Museum recently celebrated the 4th of July with the arrival of a Higgins boat that was found in a California lake. We caught up with Jerry Meyer, who ...

The Higgins boat is one of the iconic vessels of World War II. The Higgins boat, known as an LCVP, took US and allied troops ashore across Europe and the Pacific. The man behind it, Andrew Higgins, ...

DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their ...

Higgins boat PA31-17, which saw action in seven World War II battles, arrived at the Nebraska National Guard Museum in Seward after it was discovered in half-submerged in drought-stricken Shasta Lake ...

A World War II-era boat was discovered at drought-stricken Shasta Lake in California, the U.S. Forest Service announced. The Shasta-Trinity National Forest shared photos of the vessel it called the ...

SEWARD, Neb. (KOLN) - On Veterans Day this year, the Magnolia Network released a new documentary called “Preserving the Last Higgins Boat”. It tells the story of an authentic Higgins boat that is now ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins was born and raised 1,000 miles from the ocean — yet he forever changed war fought from the sea. He designed and manufactured the iconic World War II amphibious landing craft ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins, the man Dwight D. Eisenhower once credited with winning World War II, was a wild and wily genius. At the New Orleans plant where his company built the boats that brought troops ...

JOEY SAFCHIK REPORTING. WE’RE A WORLD WAR TWO BOAT DISCOVERED IN A CALIFORNIA LAKE WILL SOON BE ON DISPLAY IN NEBRASKA. YEAH, IT’S A HIGGINS BOAT. ONE THAT CARRIED SOLDIERS AND LANDED ORD ON BEACHES ...

Military history buffs, family of veterans and engineers, curious locals and several out-of-town visitors watched excitedly as a Higgins boat rolled into Pawnee Park on July 5. The boat, on a road ...